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Emotions & Behavior — 10 Classroom Activities to Enhance Executive Function and Improve Task Completion

Objectives

  1. Describe the cognitive science behind learning and memory in a practical, activity-based manner.
  2. Explain how to become a “Cognitive Detective” to better see what executive functions might be road blocks to a specific student’s achievement.
  3. Model how to have “Cognitive Conversations” with students to help them move from feel distressed about their learning to feeling like empowered thinkers.
  4. Show how to fill your tool-box with 10 activities that will immediately transform your students’ learning.

Outline

  • Today’s Landscape
    • Current Issues
    • Simple Activities
    • Current Research
  • Managing Disruption vs. Time Teaching
  • Teacher Attrition
    • Facts of teacher dissatisfaction
  • Economic Costs
    • Teacher turnover
    • Drained Resources
  • What Counts
    • Attitudes and Behaviors
    • Teacher-student involvement
  • Activities
    • It all begins with you
    • I believe
    • I will connect
    • I will BEE authentic
  • What is SEL
  • 5 Core Competencies
    • Self-awareness
    • Self-management
    • Social awareness
    • Relationship skills
    • Decision Making
  • How does SEL make a difference
    • Case Study
  • Simple Actions to Make
    • Planning
    • Applying structure
    • Student mentoring and teaching
    • Being Present
  • Activities
    • Create Cognitive Conversations
    • Kindness Can
    • Bloom Kindness Keeper
    • Classroom Culture Agreement
    • Classroom Mission Statement
    • Kindness Poem
  • Cognitive Conversations that Improve Self-Awareness

Program Information

Target Audience

Physicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Describe the cognitive science behind learning and memory in a practical, activity-based manner.
  2. Explain how to become a “Cognitive Detective” to better see what executive functions might be road blocks to a specific student’s achievement.
  3. Model how to have “Cognitive Conversations” with students to help them move from feel distressed about their learning to feeling like empowered thinkers.
  4. Show how to fill your tool-box with 10 activities that will immediately transform your students’ learning.

Outline

  • Today’s Landscape
    • Current Issues
    • Simple Activities
    • Current Research
  • Managing Disruption vs. Time Teaching
  • Teacher Attrition
    • Facts of teacher dissatisfaction
  • Economic Costs
    • Teacher turnover
    • Drained Resources
  • What Counts
    • Attitudes and Behaviors
    • Teacher-student involvement
  • Activities
    • It all begins with you
    • I believe
    • I will connect
    • I will BEE authentic
  • What is SEL
  • 5 Core Competencies
    • Self-awareness
    • Self-management
    • Social awareness
    • Relationship skills
    • Decision Making
  • How does SEL make a difference
    • Case Study
  • Simple Actions to Make
    • Planning
    • Applying structure
    • Student mentoring and teaching
    • Being Present
  • Activities
    • Create Cognitive Conversations
    • Kindness Can
    • Bloom Kindness Keeper
    • Classroom Culture Agreement
    • Classroom Mission Statement
    • Kindness Poem
  • Cognitive Conversations that Improve Self-Awareness

Copyright : 08/25/2016

Emotions & Behavior — 10 Activities to Enhance Social-Emotional Literacy in the Classroom: Transform Student Behavior from Chaos to Calm

Objectives

  1. Establish a new social-emotional literacy tool for classrooms called Bloom Your Room, created as a 50-piece art collection with research-based strategies, tools and activities build into it. Kids will enjoy the art, talking about the characters and learning social skills, kindness and empathy without any resistance.
  2. Show how to fill your tool-box with words and activities to help your students on a healthy path to good behavior and top-notch learning.
  3. Describe exactly what to say to encourage students to be prosocial, kind and caring with one another, allowing you more time to do what you love, teach.

Outline

  • Learning Objectives
    • Cognitive Science behind learning and memory
    • Cognitive Detective
    • Cognitive Conversations
    • Tool-box
  • 10 Thinking Skill Activities
    • The Love Notes from Musical Thinking
    • Slow Mo and Quick Rick
    • Why We Move To Think
    • Let Me Think About That
    • What’s In It For Me
    • The “Cognitive Conversation”
    • My Attention Engine
    • Process Speed Front Loading Worksheet
    • The HOPPER Homework Planning Sheet
    • Put A Bow On It
  • Core Executive Functions
    • Attention
    • Planning and Previewing
    • Approaching Tasks
    • Initiation and Execution
    • Reviewing and Revising
    • Organization
    • Memory
    • Inhibition
    • Time estimation, allocation, monitoring
  • How We Learn
    • What learning is
    • How we learn
    • Memory
    • Neuronal Pathways
    • Practice
    • Movement
    • Rhythm, tempo and timing
  • Activities

Program Information

Target Audience

Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Establish a new social-emotional literacy tool for classrooms called Bloom Your Room, created as a 50-piece art collection with research-based strategies, tools and activities build into it. Kids will enjoy the art, talking about the characters and learning social skills, kindness and empathy without any resistance.
  2. Show how to fill your tool-box with words and activities to help your students on a healthy path to good behavior and top-notch learning.
  3. Describe exactly what to say to encourage students to be prosocial, kind and caring with one another, allowing you more time to do what you love, teach.

Outline

  • Learning Objectives
    • Cognitive Science behind learning and memory
    • Cognitive Detective
    • Cognitive Conversations
    • Tool-box
  • 10 Thinking Skill Activities
    • The Love Notes from Musical Thinking
    • Slow Mo and Quick Rick
    • Why We Move To Think
    • Let Me Think About That
    • What’s In It For Me
    • The “Cognitive Conversation”
    • My Attention Engine
    • Process Speed Front Loading Worksheet
    • The HOPPER Homework Planning Sheet
    • Put A Bow On It
  • Core Executive Functions
    • Attention
    • Planning and Previewing
    • Approaching Tasks
    • Initiation and Execution
    • Reviewing and Revising
    • Organization
    • Memory
    • Inhibition
    • Time estimation, allocation, monitoring
  • How We Learn
    • What learning is
    • How we learn
    • Memory
    • Neuronal Pathways
    • Practice
    • Movement
    • Rhythm, tempo and timing
  • Activities

Copyright : 08/23/2016

Emotions & Behavior — Yoga and Mindfulness: Brain Body Tools for Children and Adolescents

Objectives

  1. Practice 2 deep breathing techniques for calming and regulation
  2. Assess simple hatha yoga poses for attention and relaxation
  3. Demonstrate mindfulness principles through activities and stories
  4. Explore meditation and guided imagery through short activities

Outline

  1. Mindfulness Made Easy
    1. Use stories to demonstrate mindfulness in our daily lives
    2. Tenets of mindfulness
    3. Being a witness of the mind
  2. Breathing Techniques
    1. Three-part breath
    2. Equal breath
    3. Hand placements
  3. Hatha Yoga Poses for the Classroom for Attention and Regulation
    1. Seated poses
    2. Standing poses
    3. Savasana “ Do nothing Doll Pose”
  4. Guided Imagery and Meditation
    1. Elements to create relaxation with imagery
    2. The Raft
    3. Grounding Column

Program Information

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Teachers/Educators, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/28/2014

Emotions & Behavior — ACEs: What You Need to Know TODAY About the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

OUTLINE

  • What is an ACE?
  • The 10 ACE questions
  • Why ACEs matter
  • Consequences
    • Physical
    • Behavioral
    • Psychological
    • Emotional
    • Social
  • Biomedical considerations
    • Epigenetics
    • Neurobiology
  • Becoming trauma-informed
  • Resilience survey
  • Prevention:
    • Personal
    • Family
    • Community
  • Solutions

OBJECTIVES

  • List the consequences of a high ACE score
  • Describe how resilience enhances prevention
  • Identify trauma-informed interventions

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

Outline

  • What is an ACE?
  • The 10 ACE questions
  • Why ACEs matter
  • Consequences
    • Physical
    • Behavioral
    • Psychological
    • Emotional
    • Social
  • Biomedical considerations
    • Epigenetics
    • Neurobiology
  • Becoming trauma-informed
  • Resilience survey
  • Prevention:
    • Personal
    • Family
    • Community
  • Solutions

Objectives

  • List the consequences of a high ACE score
  • Describe how resilience enhances prevention
  • Identify trauma-informed interventions

Copyright : 07/07/2016

Autism & ADHD — Yoga & Mindfulness Based Practices to Support Children & Adolescents with ADHD

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Articulate how the body and nervous system effect ADHD symptomology in children.
  2. Consider clinical implications of utilizing yoga and mindfulness practices to reduce ADHD symptoms in clients.

Outline

  • Understanding ADHD through the Body and Nervous System
  • How Can Yoga & Mindfulness Help Children with ADHD?
  • The Five Elements of Yoga and Mindfulness
  • Practices
    • Connect Activity to Orient and Sooth the Protective Brain: Layers of Sound
    • Breathe Activity to Regulate Nervous System: Breath of Joy
    • Move Activity to Calm and Ground: Chair Yoga Sequence
    • Focus Activity to Improve Attention: I Am In Charge
    • Relax Activity to Increase Embodiment and Support Rest: Tense and Let Go

Copyright : 01/12/2016

Autism & ADHD — The Emotional Intelligence of Asperger’s Syndrome: Interventions to Achieve Social and Personal Success

OUTLINE

  1. Emotional Quotient (EQ) of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS)
    1. How AS Impacts EQ
    2. AS coping strategies
    3. AS factors limit the ability to recognize emotional states
  2. Personal Competences of EQ: Self-awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation
    1. Develop emotional awareness, self-assessment and self-confidence
    2. Improve self-control, conscientiousness and adaptability
    3. Increase focus, achievement, commitment, initiative and optimism
  3. Social Competence of EQ: Social Awareness and Social Skills
    1. Strengthen empathy, service orientation and leverage
  4. Develop communication, conflict management, bonds, collaboration and cooperation

OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify key areas of emotional difficulty for individuals presenting with AS
  2. Summarize how the concepts of EQ can negatively impact AS intervention
  3. Develop appropriate goals for deficiencies in both personal and social EQ competencies
  4. Discuss how EQ directly impacts your client’s perception of himself
  5. State how EQ impacts your client’s perception of those around him

Program Information

Target Audience

Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech-Language Pathology Assistants, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Special Education Teachers, ESE Teachers, General Education Teachers, School Administrators, Educational Paraprofessionals, Behavior Specialists, Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers

Objectives

  1. Identify key areas of emotional difficulty for individuals presenting with AS
  2. Summarize how the concepts of EQ can negatively impact AS intervention
  3. Develop appropriate goals for deficiencies in both personal and social EQ competencies
  4. Discuss how EQ directly impacts your client’s perception of himself
  5. State how EQ impacts your client’s perception of those around him

Outline

  1. Emotional Quotient (EQ) of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS)
    1. How AS Impacts EQ
    2. AS coping strategies
    3. AS factors limit the ability to recognize emotional states
  2. Personal Competences of EQ: Self-awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation
    1. Develop emotional awareness, self-assessment and self-confidence
    2. Improve self-control, conscientiousness and adaptability
    3. Increase focus, achievement, commitment, initiative and optimism
  3. Social Competence of EQ: Social Awareness and Social Skills
    1. Strengthen empathy, service orientation and leverage
  4. Develop communication, conflict management, bonds, collaboration and cooperation

Copyright : 10/18/2016

Sensory Modulation, Part 1 — How to Work with Children: A Sensory Approach

OUTLINE

  • 10 core elements of sensory interventions
  • Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
  • Build a rapport with the child
  • Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
  • Design interventions: keep the workload down
  • Make it fun!

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
  • Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
  • Develop a solid rapport with the child.

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  • Describe the 10 elements of good sensory interventions.
  • Design sensory add-ons to classwork, homework and therapy.
  • Develop a solid rapport with the child.

Outline

  • 10 core elements of sensory interventions
  • Make use of goals, opportunities and creativity
  • Build a rapport with the child
  • Use the room as an ingredient for self-regulation
  • Design interventions: keep the workload down
  • Make it fun!

Copyright : 02/15/2016

Sensory Modulation, Part 2 — Environmental Enrichment: A Sensory-Based Protocol to Reduce the Severity of Autism

OUTLINE

Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol

  • What is it?
  • What evidence do we have?

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol

  • The short and long versions
  • The materials
  • How, where and when to put the protocol in place

Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism

  • 34 activities
  • Live demonstrations with children

Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol

  • Grade the challenge with alternate activities
  • Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities

OBJECTIVES

  • Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
  • Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
  • Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
  • Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  • Customize a sensory awareness and desensitization protocol for a child with autism of any age.
  • Administer 34 activities to develop the child’s awareness to hot/cold, visual, touch, vestibular and sound sensations.
  • Explain how to modify the enrichment protocol.
  • Incorporate activities for speech, physical exercise and emotions into the protocol.

Outline

Introduction to the Environmental Enrichment (EE) Protocol

  • What is it?
  • What evidence do we have?

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Enrichment Protocol

  • The short and long versions
  • The materials
  • How, where and when to put the protocol in place

Activities to Enrich the Senses in Autism

  • 34 activities
  • Live demonstrations with children

Modifications to the Enrichment Protocol

  • Grade the challenge with alternate activities
  • Add in speech, physical exercise, rhythm and emotional activities

Copyright : 02/15/2016

Sensory Modulation, Part 3 — Story-Based 4- and 7-Minute Workouts for the Classroom and Home

Objectives

  1. List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
  2. Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
  3. Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
  4. Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.

Outline
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

  • What it is, how it works

4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)

  • Sensory solutions for the classroom
    • Dodging Tomatoes
    • Stuff the Turkey
  • Pirates

7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine

  • 4 types of exercises
  • Putting them together
  • A story: Spaceship

Create your own story-based exercise routines 

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. List eight HIIT exercises each for home-use and school use.
  2. Perform three 4-minute FUNterval workouts for the classroom.
  3. Describe HIIT and cite recent research showing its effectiveness.
  4. Uncover how to create 7-minute routines for home.

Outline

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

  • What it is, how it works

4- Minute Story-based Exercise Routines (FUNtervals)

  • Sensory solutions for the classroom
    • Dodging Tomatoes
    • Stuff the Turkey
  • Pirates

7- Minute Story-based Exercise Routine

  • 4 types of exercises
  • Putting them together
  • A story: Spaceship

Create your own story-based exercise routines 

Copyright : 02/22/2016

Sensory Modulation, Part 4 — Sensory Enrichment: Using Everyday Activities to Calm Sensitivities and Sensory Craving

Objectives

  1. Distinguish three general desensitization techniques.
  2. Develop a repertoire of sensory-based activities.
  3. Compare the evidence for sensory therapy Vs. Ayers™ Sensory Integration.

Outline
Sensory immersion & desensitization

  • What is it?
  • What evidence do we have?

Desensitization demonstrations

  • Sound-effects story
  • Get used to gooey
  • Food play

Turn small activities into projects and hobbies
Immersion activity demonstrations

  • Yarn rolling, wrapping, chaining
  • Project: cover a box
  • Stone gluing
  • Project: make a planter
  • Scented “flowers”
  • Project: indoor sensory garden
  • Music: make a playlist
  • Color: fabric on a ring, paper mosaics
  • Project: collage

Program Information

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 02/22/2016

Anxiety — Body Dysmorphia: The Hidden Disorder

OUTLINE

  • Clues to BDD-the hidden disorder 
  • Assessment of BDD 
  • Pharmacotherapy for BDD 
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for BDD 
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for BDD 
  • Cases Examples 

OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify clues to pursue a diagnosis of BDD with a client.
  2. Describe the importance and role of pharmacotherapy in treating BDD.
  3. Implement at least 4 different CBT and ACT skills in treating a client with BDD

Program Information

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT

Objectives

  1. Identify clues to pursue a diagnosis of BDD with a client.
  2. Describe the importance and role of pharmacotherapy in treating BDD.
  3. Implement at least 4 different CBT and ACT skills in treating a client with BDD

Outline

  • Clues to BDD-the hidden disorder 
  • Assessment of BDD 
  • Pharmacotherapy for BDD 
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for BDD 
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for BDD 
  • Cases Examples

Copyright : 10/20/2016

Anxiety — Social Anxiety: Step by Step Techniques to Overcome Fear, Shyness & Social Phobia

OUTLINE

  • Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
  • Thoughts, feelings, and actions 
  • Develop a hierarchy using trigger situations 
  • Social skills – practice common social interactions 
  • Develop and practice exposure and response prevention 
  • Practice challenging automatic thoughts 
  • Learn how to overcome obstacles to doing homework 
  • Demonstrate how to involve families in treatment  
  • Termination and relapse prevention  

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the anxious brain so that your clients can understand why they avoid social situations.
  2. Develop and demonstrate appropriate exposures for social anxiety.
  3. Show the family to help their child accept their anxious thoughts and feelings and encourage brave behavior. 

Program Information

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT

Objectives

  1. Explain the anxious brain so that your clients can understand why they avoid social situations.
  2. Develop and demonstrate appropriate exposures for social anxiety.
  3. Show the family to help their child accept their anxious thoughts and feelings and encourage brave behavior. 

Outline

  • Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain
  • Thoughts, feelings, and actions 
  • Develop a hierarchy using trigger situations 
  • Social skills – practice common social interactions 
  • Develop and practice exposure and response prevention 
  • Practice challenging automatic thoughts 
  • Learn how to overcome obstacles to doing homework 
  • Demonstrate how to involve families in treatment  
  • Termination and relapse prevention  

Copyright : 10/20/2016

Anxiety — Emerging Adults: Clinical Strategies to Gain Independence, Defeat Anxiety and Succeed in the Real World

OUTLINE

  • Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain 
  • Falling off the developmental progression 
  • Develop life-skills goals for functioning 
  • Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure 
  • Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills 
  • Practice challenging automatic thoughts 
  • Termination and relapse prevention     

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
  2. Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
  3. Implement goals for life - skills. 

Program Information

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Educators, SLP, OT

Outline

  • Principals of CBT / draw the anxious brain 
  • Falling off the developmental progression 
  • Develop life-skills goals for functioning 
  • Develop a hierarchy for anxiety exposure 
  • Practice exposure and response prevention and life-skills 
  • Practice challenging automatic thoughts 
  • Termination and relapse prevention

Objectives

  1. Explain the anxious brain and the interruption to normal development of life skills present in Emerging Adults with anxiety and depression.
  2. Develop an appropriate hierarchy for exposure and response prevention.
  3. Implement goals for life - skills.

Copyright : 10/20/2016